Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor in the Programme in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture and on the 'subjective side' of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (1978, 1981, 1992); The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984, 1985, 2005) Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995, 1997) and Simulation and Its Discontents (2009). Professor Turkle's most recent book is Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, published in January 2011.She has edited and written introductory essays for three collections by MIT press: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With; Objects in Mind: Falling for Science, Technology, and Design; and The Inner History of Devices: New Mediations on Minds, Bodies. Machines.
Professor Turkle's most recent book is Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Her personal research investigates her concept of 'tethering', a new form of social/psychological encounter facilitated by digital technology, as well as on 'relational artefacts', machines that are built to be companions to people.
